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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Good lord, that quote from the article. Socialism is truly insidious.
A strike will be fun times, do it. Government run schools have replaced parenthood for much of the day for many. Free day care, free breakfast, lunch and dinner, free counseling. Who needs parents? The teachers know they have everyone by the short hairs because society has basically handed over their kids to them. I’d love to watch the woke teachers bankrupt the woke politicians needing the votes of the entitled socialists. Will Atlas shrug this time?
What’s the first thing you hear when teachers go on strike? “My child won’t make it into Harvard.” “My child won’t learn American History.” No. What you hear is “teachers are on strike so I have to hire a babysitter.” Parents don’t care about whether their kids are learning, they only care about the free babysitter service schools provide.
Schools provide free breakfast, lunch and snack for kids. Parents are no longer even responsible for feeding their own children.
True! Schools used to teach kids now they raise and indoctrinate them
Freddy, one might infer that you think teachers like and almost lust for having to take on that role. If you’ve ever talked with a great number of them you’d see they don’t. Generally speaking, most people who teach grades 7-12 have little training or real enthusiasm for that, so they do it with hesitation and some disgust at taking on an obligation for which they did not “sign up.” They do so because parents—by and large—fail to do the full-time duties of parenting as seemed to be the case many decades ago and before both spouses were dog-tired at… Read more »
James- There are many articles written about indoctrination one of which is “The Indoctrination of America’s youth by the public school system” Many teachers may or may not know they are doing this because some of the teachings may be subtle. For example Common Core which smothers children’s independent thought and now classes on the history of LGBTQ and so on. I believe when school prayer was taken out of schools that was the beginning of the demise of public schools. God can not be mentioned in public schools unless someone is swearing. This is a reason why so many… Read more »
Cut pay, cut pensions, fire the incompetent, close underpopulated schools. Hold out until January or February or longer if needed. Whatever it takes to rein in and bust this disgusting band of thieves.
You saw what happened when Rahm closed some schools. There were massive protests to keep open dilapidated schools at 1/3rd capacity It’s insanity.